Codina, Cristina

Mrs. Codina

I am from Barcelona, Spain and thus a Heritage speaker. I went to University of Barcelona for part of my degree and studied abroad in Brazil and Peru, I completed my Bachelor's Degree in Education at University of Illinois in Chicago in 2010. Then I got my Master's Degree in Spanish Language and Literatures from Loyola University Chicago in 2016. I am in my second year at the doctorate level at Aurora University in Leadership in Adult Education.

I have been teaching for 8 years at the university level, as well as high school, middle school, elementary school and adults in private academies. I am married with 3 children and 3 cats. We happily live in Bolingbrook. I fluently speak 4 languages: English, Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese. I studied Latin, Ancent Greek, Japanese and French.

I love foreign documentaries and I adore being in nature, cooking, baking and speaking different languages! I am a former artist as well, so I will bring in art into the classroom. And I studied professional photography and won a photography contest in Spain.